tenuity

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Birch branches are to be preferred on account of their tenuity.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by Mathot, R. E.

She should have kept her nerves to herself, rasped, as they were to a treacherous tenuity.

From The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur by Sinclair, May

All, therefore, concurs to prove the extreme tenuity of the substance of irregular nebul�.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

If this be so, the action of the Himalayas must be counteracted by subterranean tenuity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

Another and yet more remarkable observation is on record which goes far to prove not only the tenuity, but the transparency of a cometary nucleus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various